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I celebrated South Korea’s Lunar New Year the same way that I do it back home. I made a few resolutions.

Resolution No. 1: This year, I’m gonna drink less pop. Just one a day.

OK. Whoops. Bad move. I busted that in about 45 minutes.

But resolutions are made to be broken, right?

So I turned on my TV and started looking for the college football bowl games.

Nothing. I couldn’t even find Ryan Seacrest. Alas, I have found the one place on Earth where he does not do a show. I suppose it doesn't matter because my TV shows consist of nothing but about 20 Olympic channels.

Canada forward Mason Raymond (21) and forward Andrew Ebbett (19) celebrate a goal against Czech Republic goaltender Pavel Francouz (33) during the first period during men's ice hockey Group A play at the Winter Olympics at Gangneung Hockey Centre in Gangneung,South Korea. David E. Klutho, USA TODAY Sports

Standing at the bottom of the hill, it’s simply amazing. This is one of the coolest sporting events I’ve ever witnessed in person. The music would be playing — they switched to electronic dance music at one point — and then, suddenly, it would stop.

Like somebody pulled the plug on a radio.

Right on cue, a skier would come screaming down the ramp, hit the jump, soar through the air and everybody in the stands would scream — “Ooooh!” — while he was in the air.

Like they were watching a human, July 4th fireworks display.

While the skier — or I as like to call them, Mr. Insane Jumper Person — was in the air, I found myself literally holding my breath.

The moment Mr. Insane Jumper Person returned back to Earth and touched down, the music started to play again. As if life had returned to normal.

And maybe this is a horrible thought, but after each jump I thought: "OK, that dude survived, let’s see if the next one crashes."

I stood next to the father of a Finnish jumper during the qualifying round.

“His entire Olympics could last 10 seconds,” the dad said.

Dang. But that’s the life of an Insane Jumper Person.

I guess it’s no different than somebody going to the Summer Olympics and running one heat of the 100-meters.

On the bus ride home, two guys were talking.

“The thing I don’t understand,” one guy said. “How do you do your first jump?”

“By accident,” the other guy said.

I laughed.

Happy New Year, everybody!

“It means no worries for the rest of your days

It's our problem-free philosophy

Hakuna Matata!”

Free Press columnist Jeff Seidel is covering the 2018 Winter Olympics as part of the USA Today Network. Contact him at jseidel@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @seideljeff. To read his recent columns, go to freep.com/sports/jeff-seidel.